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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. EDB Postgres vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#122	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.enterprisedb.com

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Axibase Corporation

EnterpriseDB

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2005

2012

Current release

15585

14, December 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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